Cops have become increasingly vocal about their disdain of average citizens exercising their constitutional right to record interactions with authorities. It’s almost as if many of them feel they are above the law itself, but we digress.
Now, some officers appear to be trying to evade videos of them circulating on social media through a crafty — if not exactly airtight — strategy: playing copyrighted music loudly and for long enough to be flagged by automatic censoring software on apps like Instagram.
In a recent upload from Sennett Devermont, an activist behind the @mrcheckpoint_ and @alwaysfilmthepolice Instagram accounts, a routine interaction with a Beverly Hills police officer regarding a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request veered off the rails when the cop realized their conversation was being live-streamed. Read the full story here ▶
